Maria Jorge

Doña María is a single mother and she lives with her two daughters and her grandson in the city of Langue in the department of Valle in the south of Honduras.

Her business is selling tortillas. Her stand is located in the municipal market in Langue. She also sells her tortillas in various restaurants and cafeterias in the city and also in her house. She is requesting the amount of 8,000.00 lempiras to buy maize, wood and material to improve the workshop in which she makes her tortillas, and she hopes that this will allow her to make more tortillas, thus improving her income.

One of her plans for the future is to buy a machine to make tortillas in order for her business to grow. This will earn her a better income and help her family.

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Prisma Honduras, S.A.

This loan is administered by Prisma Honduras. Prisma is one of Kiva's first field partners in Central America and has funded over 2,500 entrepreneurs through Kiva since 2008. Prisma funds smaller than average loans for micro-entrepreneurs to help them grow businesses in urban and rural areas. To improve living conditions in Honduras, the organization strives to empower women who lack access to traditional financial services, and promotes solar panels to deliver clean, affordable electricity to rural areas. Through its four branches in southern and central Honduras, Prisma provides access to financial products to some of the poorest and most isolated communities in the country.